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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Is Shackelford now a Gwinnettian?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We didn’t see Wayne Shackelford cringe when he got called a “Gwinnettian” last week.
It happened during an awards presentation by the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners.
“He’s been an outstanding American and especially a Gwinnettian all of his life,” Chairman Charles Bannister said.
Only the older elephants are going to remember this, but Shackelford once publicly derided the term (pronounced Gwin-ee-shun). For the uninitiated, a Gwinnettian is a Gwinnett County resident.
“There’s no such word in my vocabulary. It is grammatically incorrect, and it’s an incorrect description of what we are,” Shackelford said during an interview in 1988.
The former state transportation czar and Gwinnett County administrator was responding to a reporter’s question about the origin of the word.
But Shackelford was talking like a Gwinnettian after receiving his award Tuesday.
“I grew up,” Shackelford said. “I like it now.”
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